The method used, thus the style of the painting, is three-layered.
The monochrome pigmented background hints at the
spaciousness, but I "closed" it to the point where it is also just an
element of the image, maybe even just the base, which passes from the depth to
the foreground and vice versa.
The next element of the picture is contrasting with the
"background", flickering colors, but within this distinct color I
stick to a certain color scale. These colors are chromatically brighter and are
in the range of the tonal scale. In the paint applications, I look for tonal
equalization of the whole.
I also calm the present contrasts with
"architecturally" motionless forms in the painting, but I also avoid
the common point of intersection in the background, thus calming the rhythm of
the emerging motif, so I also unite the space in the "Japanese" way.
I used gold as the third layer or element of the painting.
Depending on the angle of illumination of the image, the gold color either
fades into the background or rises. It adds a graphic and renaissance-iconic
moment to the painting, and the painting and all the colors and forms on it,
are constantly »moving« in light.
The style itself- the way of painting, causes the
unusualness of the situation and the effect of uncertainty - which space is
outside or inside which.
The technical treatment of the image also results in
indefinite light - from radiance to twilight, from the light spectrum below the
water to surface light, or the color of space under water.
With basically an everyday motif of squid or a museum or
paintings on the walls, I depicted a world and a time where it is not clear who
is an artifact to whom. Perhaps nature has flourished and only a memorial room
is left deep in the sea: a man who braggs and shows off (but photography of it
is forbidden) his courage and conquests (paintings of ships conquering new worlds)
and domination over environment (stuffed frog, aquarium with marine life).
Perhaps, however, for his ornaments, man built an aquarium in the bright,
shining rooms of his achievements, in which he closed the whole ocean for his prestige
inventory.
